Love your Maui Onion flavored chips?  You can get to the heart of the matter at the annual Maui Onion Festival, May 2nd in Whalers Village on Kaanapali Beach, Maui.
These sweet Maui onions can be grown in locations other than Maui, but nothing beats the islands for a celebration of this type.  Over a thousand pounds of onions and five local celebrity chefs will provide cooking demonstrations and compete for the Best Onion Recipe prize.
If you’ll be visiting Maui during this time be sure to head into Kaanapali – all you’ll have to do is follow the fragrance of …read more

When Truman was old enough to realize the concept of vacation, he took to the idea quite warmly. His favorite place in the world became the beach.
When he was not quite 2 years old, we spent a week on the Gulf Coast of Florida (along Highway 30-A between Rosemary and Seaside, if you are familiar with the area). Truman took to the water like a fish. He played in the surf (probably drank a gallon of seawater) and rolled in the sand (probably ate a pound of that) and played in the pool and slept hard every night. The day …read more

The U.S. financial markets and all federal businesses were closed today, as a national day of respect and mourning for the late President Ford.
That means is if you are a financial trader, a postal worker, an FBI agent, a cook in the White House or any other GOVERNMENT employee, you legitimately got the day off.
My husband works at a gigantic financial services company, here in NYC. His department manages very sophisticated and complex investment instruments.
Some of the people in his group are traders…but many are not.
So when a a young — non-trading — woman, who incidentally, had JUST returned …read more